Updated October 30, 2026. Quick answer: The 2025 chart lists 484200 for “Specialized freight trucking (including household moving vans)”, which is the only row that names moving vans. The code goes on line B beside your line A description. Neighbors such as 484110 and 493100 may read closer, depending on the principal source of your receipts.
Where moving vans appear on the chart
Moving is not a heading of its own. The chart tucks it into a parenthetical inside a freight trucking row.
| Code | Wording on the IRS chart |
|---|---|
| 484200 | Specialized freight trucking (including household moving vans) |
That row reads “Specialized freight trucking (including household moving vans)”. The words moving vans are the only place the chart speaks of moving, so a household mover is reading a trucking line.
Describing a moving business on line A
Line A asks for a description of the work: “Describe the business or professional activity that provided your principal source of income reported on line 1.” Line B asks for the code: “Enter on line B the six-digit code from the Principal Business or Professional Activity Codes chart” The code goes in the box on line B, beside the description.
An example of the kind of description, not IRS wording: local and long-distance household moving with a crew and a truck. Line A is free text, so it can say what the crew does, while line B holds one code.
Trucking, storage and courier rows nearby
A moving company can look like several things on the chart. These rows are the closest in wording, and each one is described differently.
| Code | Wording on the IRS chart |
|---|---|
| 484110 | General freight trucking, local |
| 484120 | General freight trucking, long distance |
| 493100 | Warehousing & storage (except leases of miniwarehouses & self-storage units) |
| 492000 | Couriers & messengers |
| 488000 | Support activities for transportation (including motor vehicle towing) |
General freight is split by distance: “General freight trucking, local” and “General freight trucking, long distance”. A business that mostly holds goods for customers would read “Warehousing & storage (except leases of miniwarehouses & self-storage units)”, and one that mostly carries parcels would read “Couriers & messengers”.
The chart’s rule has two steps: “Select the category that best describes your primary business activity”, and then “Then select the activity that best identifies the principal source of your sales or receipts”.
Moving, hauling and storage in one business
The chart has no row that names movers, and none that uses the word hauling. What it does carry is trucking split by kind of freight, so a crew that moves households and also stores belongings between moves is weighing two lines. The rule asks which activity brings in the receipts: “Then select the activity that best identifies the principal source of your sales or receipts”.
A mover who also runs an unrelated side business is in the position the instructions address: “If you owned more than one business, complete a separate Schedule C for each business.”
Where to go from here
The code sits on line B next to the line A description on Schedule C (Form 1040). Movers who work from a truck may want to read Schedule C Part IV on vehicle information, and a related page covers the truck driver code question. the full list of Schedule C business codes lists every row.
Edition and chart year
This page reads the 2025 Schedule C (Form 1040) and its 2025 instructions, the files for the tax year 2025 return, filed in 2026. The schedule says “Attach to Form 1040, 1040-SR, 1040-SS, 1040-NR, or 1041”. Check the tax year printed on the schedule you are filling in and use the chart that comes with that year’s instructions, because a different year’s chart can list different codes or reword them.
Common mistakes
- Searching the chart for a row called movers. The wording is “Specialized freight trucking (including household moving vans)”.
- Reading the general freight rows as the moving rows. They are worded as “General freight trucking, local” and “General freight trucking, long distance”.
- Treating storage as part of the moving row. Storage has its own wording: “Warehousing & storage (except leases of miniwarehouses & self-storage units)”.
Related: Schedule C (Form 1040), Schedule C business codes: the full IRS list, Schedule C Part IV on vehicle information, and the truck driver code question.
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- Instructions for Schedule C (Form 1040), Profit or Loss From Business (2025): IRS archived PDF (irs.gov)
- Schedule C (Form 1040), Profit or Loss From Business (2025): IRS archived PDF (irs.gov)
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